Word: woolsey
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...scandal has inspired a lot of finger pointing. Deutch reprimanded seven agency officers, six of whom had already retired. Frederick Hitz, the CIA inspector general, recommended that the last three agency directors (William Webster, Robert Gates and R. James Woolsey) "be held accountable." The three ex-directors sent an angry letter to Deutch insisting that they had never been told by subordinates that the sensitive intelligence was tainted...
Within two weeks of the President's February announcement that Carns would replace embattled CIA Director R. James Woolsey, anonymous tips began trickling into the FBI and Senate Intelligence Committee that the retired general had a domestic-help problem. When he left Clark Air Base in the Philippines in 1987, Carns agreed to bring back the family cook's nephew, Elbino Runas. The INS allows U.S. soldiers stationed abroad to bring back a domestic for up to four years if they certify that the worker was a servant and will be employed as household help in the U.S. But Carns...
...community, which includes the CIA as well as the Pentagon, the State Department and FBI intelligence services, hasa $28 billion-a-year budget. That is likely to shrink, given thecost-cutting mood in Congress. Its most expensive items are the billion-dollar spy satellites that former CIA Director James Woolsey, who had frequent funding battles with Congress, wanted to upgrade. But Senate critics complain that the CIA already has six photographic spy satellites sitting in warehouses, which, along with the ones in orbit, could take pictures for at least the next decade. New satellites for intercepting communications signals would...
...vice chief of staff until last year--took most Beltway insiders by surprise. But, Waller adds, Carns's reputation as "a low-key, effective manager, a very quick study and a take-charge kind of guy" already sounds good to congressional leaders who forced out the intransigent R. James Woolsey in December. He may be in like Flint with the Senate, but "he's an outsider coming into what is one of the most insular and byzantine agencies in government," Waller says. Making the job even more of a challenge is the run of bad press Spy Central has faced...
...vice chief of staff until last year--took most Beltway insiders by surprise. But, Waller adds, Carns's reputation as "a low-key, effective manager, a very quick study and a take-charge kind of guy" already sounds good to congressional leaders who forced out the intransigent R. James Woolsey in December. He may be in like Flint with the Senate, but "he's an outsider coming into what is one of the most insular and byzantine agencies in government," Waller says. Making the job even more of a challenge is the run of bad press Spy Central has faced...